TOKYO — Nine Red Cross registered nurses and volunteers, all of them wives of Air Force men stationed in Japan, returned here ... a registered nurse, left Yokota AB early Sunday aboard a Pan ...

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

Police in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, have arrested a 46-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing his 80-year-old mother at their home. Police said Yosuke Tanaka is accused of stabbing his ...

UPDATE: Minneapolis Police say Marvin Terry has returned home on Tuesday and is safe. The original article relating to his disappearance can be found below. The Minneapolis Police Department is ...

At least 37,550 enterprises in Japan passed the century mark in being in business in March, far more than in any other nation. An expert noted the nation has the most centenarian corporations ...

a town on the smallest of Japan’s four main islands known for its paper industry. “If we don’t have the people we can’t make products and we can’t turn a profit. We’ll go under.

In 1913, Tohoku became the first university in Japan to admit female students. Tohoku University was also the first in Japan to admit international students. In 2009, Tohoku was one of 13 universities ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

During my first year in Japan on a working ... I enjoy meandering through old shopping areas, so I started at Mitsukoshi department store, passing through the quaint covered shopping streets Okaido ...

Perched on a small mountain next to the sea and overlooking Ibiza town is the fortified old town of Dalt Vila which translates to "Upper Town". There are surprises and amazing photo opportunities ...